Every day, forensic examiners compare pieces of evidence (e.g., fingerprints, bullets) and decide whether they “match”—i.e., came from the same source (e.g., person, gun). These decisions hold obvious ...

In the 1997 film Gattaca, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) painstakingly brushes his hair, trims his nails, exfoliates his skin, and shaves his face — all to avoid shedding parts of his body carrying his DNA, ...

Forensic anthropologists face mental health risks due to chronic exposure to violent death. Vicarious trauma and burnout can arise even without direct experience of violence.

Emanuela Orlandi is pictured in a photo that was distributed after her presumed kidnapping in 1983. (Credit: CNS file photo.) Listen ROME — The complex process of examining bones and extracting DNA ...

The largest-ever black-box study on the accuracy of bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA), a widely used forensic technique, has found concerning error rates and ...

For the first time, researchers have identified what appears to be a network of approximately 20 microbes that universally drive the decomposition of animal flesh. The findings have significant ...

Dr. Henry Wheeler, a prominent pioneer physician in Grand Forks and the city's onetime mayor, always claimed he owned the skeleton of an outlaw that he killed named McClelland "Clell" Miller. He kept ...

Forensic botany has traditionally focused on flowering plants and pollen, while bryophytes have received little systematic attention despite their ubiquity, persistence, and distinctive morphological ...

Choose between criminology and forensic science in 2026. Behavioral social science and laboratory-based evidence analysis are ...

In forensic accounting, accountants and lawyers may be close partners; and in fact, attorneys are often the reason accountants enter the field of forensic accounting to begin with. All three ...